7th St. & Indiana Ave. NW, Washington, District Of Columbia. County/parish: District of Columbia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 12, 2007. NRIS 07001061.
1 contributing object.Also known as:
The Temperance Fountain is a fountain and statue located in Washington, D.C., donated to the city in 1882 by Henry D. Cogswell, a dentist from San Francisco, California, who was a crusader in the temperance movement. This fountain was one of a series of temperance fountains he designed and commissioned in a belief that easy access to cool drinking water would keep people from consuming alcoholic beverages.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/117691742